Thursday, April 21, 2016

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 22/04/2016

The new, old Trump brings back ‘Lyin’ Ted’The
real estate mogul and Republican frontrunner revived his favorite
nickname for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at a rally here, repeatedly using it to
trash his rival for his alleged close ties to special interests and for
his efforts to outmaneuver Trump in the race for delegates to the party
convention. “I’m millions of votes ahead of ‘Lyin’ Ted,’” Trump
boasted, slamming the Texas senator for trying to exploit a “rigged” and
“corrupt” delegate system. Trump’s taunts came just a day after he
revealed a new, more restrained side at his New York primary victory
event Tuesday night, referring to his rival as “Senator Cruz” and
offering a more disciplined message.

Harriet Tubman to be first African-American on U.S. currencyBy
Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-slavery crusader Harriet
Tubman will become the first African-American on the face of U.S. paper
currency, and the first woman in more than a century, when she replaces
former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. The U.S. Treasury
Department said on Wednesday that Tubman, who was born into slavery in
the early 1820s and went on to help hundreds of slaves escape, would
take the center spot on the bill, while Jackson, a slave owner, would
move to the back. Introduced alongside a slew of changes to the $5 and
$10 notes as well, the redesign gives the Treasury "a chance to open the
aperture to reflect more of America's history," Treasury Secretary Jack
Lew said.

Up to 500 feared dead in Mediterranean shipwreck last weekGENEVA
(AP) — As many as 500 people are feared dead after a shipwreck last
week in the Mediterranean Sea, two international groups said Wednesday,
describing survivors' accounts of panicked passengers who desperately
tried to stay afloat by jumping between vessels.

Death toll in earthquake-ravaged Ecuador tops 500By
Ana Isabel Martinez and Julia Symmes Cobb PEDERNALES, Ecuador (Reuters)
- The death toll from Ecuador's weekend earthquake surpassed 500 and
rescue efforts ebbed on Wednesday as the traumatized Andean nation
braced itself for long and costly rebuilding ahead. To help fund the
multibillion-dollar reconstruction of homes, roads and buildings in the
devastated Pacific coast region, Ecuador may issue new bonds on the
international market, a somber President Rafael Correa said. 'Not
again!,' I thought," said Maria Quinones in Pedernales town, which bore
the brunt of Saturday's disaster.

Obama in Saudi Arabia on fence-mending visitPresident
Barack Obama held talks with Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday as
he began a two-day visit hoping to ease tensions with the historic US
ally. Riyadh and its Sunni Arab Gulf neighbours have bristled at what
they see as Washington's tilt towards their regional rival Shiite Iran
after Tehran's landmark nuclear deal with world powers. Obama, making
probably his last visit to Riyadh as president, attends a summit of Gulf
leaders on Thursday hoping to focus on intensifying the fight against
the Islamic State group and resolving the wars in Syria and Yemen.

Three Michigan officials charged in Flint toxic water crisisThree
Michigan state and local officials were criminally charged on Wednesday
in connection with the state attorney general's investigation into
dangerous lead levels in Flint's drinking water, a crisis that has
fueled widespread public outrage, according to local media reports.
Genesee District Judge Tracy Collier-Nix authorized charges against
Flint employee Michael Glasgow and Michigan Department of Environmental
Quality employees Stephen Busch and Michael Prysby, The Detroit News and
Mlive reported. Attorney General Bill Schuette in January named a
special prosecutor to lead a team to probe whether criminal charges
should be filed in the water crisis.